The patent wars rage on. Eolas, a company that before won US$585 million from Microsoft in 2003 in a suit that challenged the use of ActiveX and AJAX, is now after twenty-three separate companies allegedly because their precious patent was spoiled by all of them.

Bullshit is still bullshit even if the government says it smells like roses. People who think software patents are fundamentally flawed aren't going to roll over just because of a couple of cases don't go their way. If more cases like these go through, if will start to harm the american software industry as they will be at a great disadvantage compared to companies in other nations with saner patent laws.

The only good thing about this is that we might see a lot of other companies join red hat in pushing for change in the patent system.